Weitmühl
The Weitmühl (also Krabitz of Weitmühl Czech z Veitmíle even Krabicové for Veitmile) was a Bohemian Uradelsgeschlecht . Their parent company was Veitmile near Staré Smrkovice ( Smrkowitz ) in the Bidschower district .
history
Pešek called Krabitz, with whom the family can be proven, was enfeoffed in 1319 by King John of Luxembourg with the Schreckenstein Castle . His son of the same name Pešek the Younger, 1349 district judge and royal hunter master in the Trautenauer district , was the father of Vladiken Wilhelm Krabitz at Veste Weitmühl. He was married to Przibyslawa von Martinic and died after 1356. His sons Johann / Jan and Beneš are the founders of the Weitmühl line in Bohemia and the Weitmühl line in Moravia . This originated from a branch in Alsace that was extinguished around 1500 and the line in the that was extinguished around the middle of the 18th centuryKnighthood as well as the baronial house. According to the oldest gentlemen's status from 1501, this held the 30th rank and expired in 1600 with Sebastian Laurenz Freiherr von Weitmühl.
In 1475 Beneš Krabitz von Weitmühl became an imperial baron; the Bohemian confirmation of the baron class also took place in 1475, then the admission to the Bohemian gentry class . Beneš Krabitz was burgrave on Karlstein and chief mint master in the Kingdom of Bohemia. He was married to Bonussa ( Benigna ) daughter of Jan Calta z Kamenné hory ( Johann Ritter Czalta ), on Komotau and died on August 28, 1496.
The Bohemian knighthood confirmation with improvement of the coat of arms took place in Prague on April 3, 1628 as well as a Bohemian knight in Vienna on August 14, 1631 for Ignaz Ladislaus Weytmiller von Weytmille and Weytmühlen, captain on Teltsch from the line that was extinguished in the knighthood.
coat of arms
In red a silver millstone covered with a black mill iron placed horizontally ; on the crowned helmet with red-silver covers the millstone in front of a natural peacock puddle.
Personalities
- Benesch von Weitmühl († 1375), historian and canon in Prague
- Sebastian von Weitmühl († 1549), Bohemian field captain and mining entrepreneur
literature
- Weitmühl from the house of Krabicze z Weitmile, Krabitze from Weitmühlen. In: Roman von Procházka : Genealogical handbook of extinct Bohemian noble families. Neustadt an der Aisch 1973, ISBN 3-7686-5002-2 , pp. 335 and 336.
- Procházka novel : supplementary volume. Genealogical handbook of extinct gentry families. Published by the board of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) Research Center for the Bohemian Countries, R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-54051-3 , p. 150.
- The coats of arms of the Bohemian nobility. In: J. Siebmacher's large book of arms. Volume 30, Neustadt an der Aisch 1979, ISBN 3-87947-030-8 , Krabice von Weitmil, pp. 232 and 233, coat of arms 102.